- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:17:17 +0300
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
On Sep 22, 2009, at 12:38, Mark Birbeck wrote: > Design principles are hardly "principles" if they can be changed on a > whim. What you are now saying is 'pave the cowpaths that lots of cows > in the grand scheme of things have been using'. > > But the cowpath metaphor is supposed to invoke the idea of something > that people are already doing. There can be little ambiguity there -- > people are either already doing something, or they aren't. You either > have a cowpath or you don't -- not one that suits your goals. A few cows don't yet make a path. In any case, as Leif pointed out, the design principle says "consider adopting". RDFa was considered and rejected due to design problems. > The BBC is publishing RDFa in the form of program reviews. > > UK government websites are publishing job vacancies and > consultations with RDFa. Who consumes this data? (My point being: If a cow falls in the forest but no one is there to observe it, does it make a path?) > Google is recommending the use of RDFa to add license information to > images and videos. I think this should be considered in the context of http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2009Sep/0124.html Paving this path seems to call for a processing model that ignores prefixes. > Drupal 7 includes RDFa support. What does that mean? Does Drupal output RDFa? If so, who consumes it? Does it ingest RDFa? If so, from where? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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